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  Encyclopedia: Peter Goldring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Peter Goldring (born December 12, 1944 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian politician.
Goldring is currently a member of the Conservative Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Edmonton Centre-East since 2000, and Edmonton East from 1997 to 2000.
During the regional tour Goldring kept up to date about Grenada, and spoke with the other governments from the various islands to gauge them on what their idea was and should be for Canada's cooperative role in the Caribbean region.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Peter-Goldring   (679 words)

  
 Peter Goldring -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Peter Goldring (born December 12, 1944 in (additional info and facts about Toronto, Ontario) Toronto, Ontario) is a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian politician.
Goldring is currently a member of the (additional info and facts about Conservative Party of Canada) Conservative Party of Canada in the (additional info and facts about Canadian House of Commons) Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Edmonton Centre-East since 2000, and Edmonton East from 1997 to 2000.
In 2004, Goldring visited the (additional info and facts about Turks and Caicos Islands) Turks and Caicos Islands in the (Region including the Caribbean islands) Caribbean to explore the possibility of (The formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation) annexation of the islands to Canada.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pe/Peter_Goldring.htm   (389 words)

  
 Political Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Peter Goldring was re-elected as the Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre-East in November 2000 as a member of the Canadian Alliance.
Goldring wears his social conscience on his sleeve day by day and says we must help those that cannot help themselves but we must be careful not to inhibit those that can develop their own self-worth and independence by giving them the opportunity to grow in society.
Goldring to rethink his life, his priorities, his family responsibility and plunge into National politics and then succeeded to be elected on his first election contest.
www.rightpoint.org /profiles.html   (1442 words)

  
 A PLACE IN THE SUN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Goldring notes that the response across Canada runs in "the high 95%," and believes there are a number of benefits for both countries.
Goldring also notes that the union could take one of several forms, from an economic or political relationship to a tri-partite arrangement with the United Kingdom.
Goldring described the visit as "positive enough to know that it must be explored further," and plans to keep looking into the possibility of a union.
www.timespub.tc /Business/Archive/Summer2004/canada.htm   (1571 words)

  
 globeandmail.com - Canada's Election 2004 - Breaking News
Peter Goldring is the Member of Parliament for the riding of Edmonton East and is currently the Official Opposition Critic for Housing and Homeless issues.
Goldring is a 30 year member of the Associated Commercial Travellers, and in the past, a member of the Alberta Fire Safety Association, and Vice-Chair of the Alberta Sound Contractors Association.
Goldring founded the Edmonton Chapter of the Montreal based Special Committee for Canadian Unity, and has long been a tireless worker in the support and promotion of Canadian unity, ultimately leading to his election to Parliament in 1997.
www.globeandmail.com /elections/fed2004/candidates/generated/48013_CON.html   (381 words)

  
 Caribbean Net News: Turks & Caicos: Canada's Caribbean paradise?
EDMONTON, Canada: Peter Goldring, a member of the Canadian Parliament, is currently visiting the Turks and Caicos Islands to explore the possibility of forming a union with the British territory.
Goldring, who is spending $3,500 of his own money on the trip, thinks the third time may be the charm.
Goldring said there would be numerous benefits to Canada, including a sunny vacation and retirement destination, corporate opportunities and "a secure place to travel in the post-9/11 world."
www.caribbeannetnews.com /2004/01/21/paradise.htm   (633 words)

  
 Peter Goldring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Peter Goldring (born December 12, 1944) in Toronto, Ontario.
A Canadian politician, Goldring is currently a member of the Conservative Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding ofEdmonton Centre-East since 2000, and Edmonton East from 1997 to 2000.
Goldring is a former Opposition critic of VeteransAffairs, Public Works and Government Services, and Public Housing.
www.therfcc.org /peter-goldring-149052.html   (135 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Canada could ditch winter blues by annexing Caribbean paradise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Peter Goldring, a Conservative member of parliament from the frigid plains of Alberta, has launched a bid to annex the small tropical archipelago between Haiti and the Bahamas — which is now a British Crown colony.
Goldring is not the first Canadian politician to launch such a Caribbean crusade.
Goldring says there is a huge upside to his scheme, for both the islands and Canada.
www.usatoday.com /travel/news/2004-03-26-canada-caribbean_x.htm   (721 words)

  
 BBC Caribbean
While admitting there isn't widespread support for such an initiative in his own party, Canadian opposition politician Peter Goldring told BBC Caribbean Service he hopes to secure cross-party support for the idea which he says could benefit both sides.
Mr Goldring says he believes times have changed and now may be the right time for such a move.
The politician said the proposal has support from a government member and the two of them were working to form a business committee and to bring parliamentarians onto a friendship committee.
www.bbc.co.uk /caribbean/news/story/2004/04/040401_turks-canada.shtml   (573 words)

  
 Peter Goldring, MP - Article/Letters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
by Peter Goldring, MP Historical revisionism, a phenomenon typical of this turn of the century, is both an attempt to distort history and an insult to honest people of good intentions who, many years ago, tried to solve their problems as best they could.
Recent examples of this trend were calls to exonerate Louis Riel, the famous Canadian criminal convicted over a century ago, and even to erect a statue of Riel on Parliament Hill.
Peter Goldring is the Canadian Alliance MP for Edmonton East and Official Opposition Critic for Veterans Affairs.
teachers.colonelby.com /bduncan/RielGoldringComments19992002.htm   (2348 words)

  
 Capital News Online | News | Canadian tropical island debate heats up again
Goldring has introduced a motion in Parliament urging the government to look at a union with Turks and Caicos, a group of Caribbean islands near Cuba.
But Goldring is quick to point out that closer links must be approved by a majority in both Canada and on the islands.
Goldring says he plans to visit the islands next month to get a better idea of islanders views.
temagami.carleton.ca /jmc/cnews/17102003/feature.shtml   (1102 words)

  
 Anne McLellan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
MP Peter Goldring spoke to then Justice Minister McLellan who is now Deputy Prime Minister for the Liberal government, who has stated and according to Peter Goldring that she was going to do absolutely nothing.
I know that you can't trust those in power that say they look out for children's best interest in family court, because they don't, and this issue on sexual abuse is another prime example of government terrorism on children at the time and how the corruption at high level has gotten out of hand..
Peter Goldring held this news conference again at the Grierson Centre, because it is at Grierson that the notorious Kingsclear pedophile guard Karl Toft is serving the last part of his term of incarceratio and where he is on unexcorted day passes.
www.fathers.ca /anne_mclellan.htm   (848 words)

  
 Peter Goldring - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Peter Goldring - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
During the regional tour Goldring kept up to date about Grenada, and spoke with the other governments from the various islands to guage them on what their idea was and should be for Canada's cooperative role in the Caribbean region.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Peter Goldring contains research on
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Peter_Goldring   (295 words)

  
 Turks and Caicos Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The committee, chaired by MP David Daubney, looked at immigration, banking, health care, and tourism issues in making its decision.
In 2004, Conservative MP Peter Goldring visited the Turks and Caicos to explore the possibility once more.
For the islands to join Canada as a full province would require amending the Canadian constitution, a step which is considered highly unlikely.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands   (1425 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Beer rescued from beneath Siberian ice
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada is not exactly known for its tropical beaches, but if federal lawmaker Peter Goldring has his way, that could change.
Goldring said Tuesday that Ottawa should absorb the Turks and Caicos, a small chain of Caribbean islands, and turn them into Canada's 11th province.
Goldring is in the islands to discuss the idea, which he said had generated "very strong interest" among members of the Turks and Caicos government.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20040121-0652-odd.html   (952 words)

  
 Canadian MP has margaritas on his mind - Peculiar Postings - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Peter Goldring, a member of Canada’s Parliament, is pushing a decades-old idea that Canadians — whose long winters prompt thousands to vacation in Florida or Mexico — should have their own sun-and-sand paradise in the Caribbean.
To that end, Goldring is proposing the Turks and Caicos Islands, a string of about 40 islands southeast of the Bahamas, become Canada’s 11th province.
Goldring visited the Turks and Caicos Islands earlier this year to meet with government and tourism officials and said they were still open to the idea of closer ties with Canada, whether that meant an outright merger or some other level of political or economic ties.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4637362   (955 words)

  
 CBC Ottawa - Hundreds of farmers rally on Parliament Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Members of four of the five political parties showed up for the demonstration, but conspicuously absent were the ruling Liberals.
Tory leader Peter MacKay says, with less than 30 per cent of Canadian beef hitting international markets, the crisis isn't so much a cattle issue as it is a human issue.
Alliance MP Peter Goldring, of Edmonton, is travelling with the group.
ottawa.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=ot_beef20030917   (248 words)

  
 Vinyl Asylum - Re: RB300 & Goldring - Cueing problem. - Peter E, January 31, 2003 at 02:13:23   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The only way to solve this properly would be to add a 4mm spacer (available cheaply from your Rega dealer)or to add a VTA adjuster (as mentioned by Andrew).
The Goldring cart likes being parallel with the record (look at the arm tube when its playing, with these it should be parallel too).
I do regularly adjust the cueing lever on Rega's I setup for customers but thats just to give a bit more clearance on warped records when cueing- sometimes the standard setting is a bit too close for comfort.
www.audioasylum.com /audio/vinyl/messages/184091.html   (251 words)

  
 cannabisnews.com: Legal Pot a Liberal Cash Cow - Goldring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
But an infuriated Justice Minister Anne McLellan said yesterday that the suggestion from Edmonton Centre MP Peter Goldring is "irresponsible" and a "misrepresentation" of her stance.
McLellan said she's open to talking about decriminalizing or legalizing pot as part of discussions going on in a Senate committee and a new House of Commons committee struck to examine non-medicinal drugs in Canada.
Goldring said McLellan is "trial-ballooning" the issue and appears ready to move ahead.
www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread9817.shtml   (658 words)

  
 Peter Goldring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
According to Peter Goldring a member of parliament stated, "I am particularly disappointed with the inaction of former Justice Minister Anne McLellan, who is now responsible for the RCMP.
EDMONTON, August 12, 2003—Peter Goldring, Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre-East, today expressed serious concerns for the security of the investigation file relating to the conduct of former RCMP Staff Sgt. Clifford McCann during the course of his association with the now closed Kingsclear Training School for Boys in New Brunswick.
McCann is currently subject to a $4 million lawsuit by four men who were incarcerated as juveniles at the now closed reform school.
www.fathers.ca /peter_goldring.htm   (2410 words)

  
 Fishman, Larsen & Goldring - Peter N. Zeitler
Fishman, Larsen and Goldring - Peter N. Zeitler
Peter Zeitler was born and raised in eastern Michigan.
He maintains a general corporate and real estate practice with an emphasis on health care, finance and transactional matters.
www.flg-law.com /zeitler.html   (319 words)

  
 CBC News: Tension mounting as Ukrainian Supreme Court session nears
The gun shouldn't be turned against the nation.
Peter Goldring, a Canadian member of Parliament who is in Ukraine as an election observer said any recourse to force would be wrong.
There are so many people around here, I don't know where they'd begin," said the Conservative MP from Edmonton East.
www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2004/11/28/kievsunday041128.html   (433 words)

  
 CBC News:N.S. votes to invite Turks and Caicos to join it
The islands, which are a British colony, are financially self-sufficient and run a balanced budget.
Edmonton Tory MP Peter Goldring has taken up the latest campaign, visiting the islands for a fact-finding mission last January.
His sales pitch is that the islands already host 16,000 Canadians each year and would provide a stable retirement and vacation destination.
www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/04/22/canada/turkscaicos_040422   (380 words)

  
 [Haiti-org] March 17 press release from Conservative MP Peter Goldring about Haiti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Coderre and the “members of the Haitian diaspora in Canada” will also travel to French Guiana with Mr.
Goldring commented as follows: This is another, quick trip by Minister Pettigrew to Haiti, following a similarly short trip last fall.
In the midst of all of this, little mention continues to be made of CARICOM, the organization of Caribbean states that has suspended Haiti’s membership subsequent to the forced overthrow of Prime Minister Aristide in February of 2004.
grace.cupe.ca /pipermail/haiti-org/2005-March/000004.html   (486 words)

  
 The Ghost of a flea
Goldring claims there are ten-thousand people on Parliament Hill for the rally, not bad on three day's notice in heavy rain.
Flea's Gateswatch can report a surprisingly balanced job by Jennifer Gates in the Goldring interview and thus far in her counterpoint interview with Canadian lackwit party leader Jack Layton.
While they certainly want to kill allied troops, their most important mission is to make it harder for all the thousands of Iraqi soldiers who truly do want to surrender.
ghostofaflea.blogspot.com /2003_03_23_ghostofaflea_archive.html   (13124 words)

  
 CBC Ottawa - Hill security questioned after bomb scare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As three bomb-disposal trucks unloaded a wheeled robot on the south side of the East Block, a group of tourists on the north side were admiring the new statue of the Famous Five — no more than 50 metres from the suspect vehicle.
MP Peter Goldring says it's a good thing there was no bomb in the truck on the Hill, because there was no coordinated attempt to get people away from it.
"What I've been seeing on the Hill [Tuesday] is Keystone Cops," says Goldring.
ottawa.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=scare010911   (338 words)

  
 The Bonassus
The recruited Inuit, carrying ancient.303 rifles and wearing Ranger baseball caps, combine regular hunting trips with official patrols, keeping an outdoorsman's keen eye open for any foreign or suspicious presence among the ice flows.
"This is an area of tens of thousands of square miles and to imagine that the Inuit can patrol it with rifles and travelling on Ski-Doos is pretty naive at best," says Conservative MP Peter Goldring, who deplores cuts in patrols by Aurora surveillance aircraft.
Jonathan "Head Heeb" Edelstein has posted the initial fruits of his research into the 1950s-era Inuit resettlement initiative mentioned in the post above.
geffen.blogspot.com /2004/08/hans-island-update.html   (845 words)

  
 Canada's Caribbean Dream   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Ur that an Alberta MP Peter Goldring had recently resurrected the idea of an alliance and had submitted a Motion to the House of Commons the day after I left for Dominican.
Thrilled, I contacted Peter right away to let him know what I was doing to help.
I am now part of the Turks and Caicos exploratory committee.
www.4caribbeandream.com   (519 words)

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